The relationship between awareness of intellectual disability, causal and intervention beliefs and social distance in Kuwait and the UK

Scior, Katrina; Hamid, Aseel; Mahfoudhi, Abdessatar; Abdalla, Fauzia

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2013.07.030

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“…The finding regarding age and attitudes is inconsistent with some studies that found younger people to be more accepting of peers with disabilities than older people (e.g., Scior, 2013;Yazbeck et al, 2004), though other researchers found the opposite trend. It might be that there is small variation in age between the groups.…”

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confidence: 66%

High School Students' Contact with and Attitudes towards Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Kuwait

Al-Kandari

2014

Australian Social Work

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This study aims to investigate demographic variables, contact-related correlates, and attitudes towards persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) among Kuwaiti high school students (N = 700). The study focuses on variables that few studies have investigated and attempts to raise awareness among social workers to advocate for the inclusion of people with IDD and reform social policy that would improve the inclusion in society. The adapted Mental Retardation Attitude Inventory-Revised (MRAI-R) was used. A set of demographic variables and known predictors of attitudes to people with IDD were tested in multivariate analyses. Except for age, differences in global attitudes were found to be a function of gender, knowing persons with IDD, intimacy, frequency of contact, intensity of contact, and knowledge of IDD. Higher levels of Contact-Intensity and higher age were associated with more positive attitudes on the Integration-Segregation, Social Distance, Private Rights, and Subtle Derogatory Beliefs subscales. These findings support the development of legislation aimed at promoting successful inclusion that contributes to positive attitudes of students towards a person with IDD.

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confidence: 66%

High School Students' Contact with and Attitudes towards Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Kuwait

Al-Kandari

2014

Australian Social Work

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“…; Scior et al . ; Scior et al . ), no study has used it to measure stigma towards individuals with co‐morbid conditions.…”

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An examination of perceptions of individuals with an intellectual disability, with and without co‐morbid schizophrenia: effects of labels on stigma

Rasdale

Warman

Phalen

2018

J intellect Disabil Res

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“…While our findings are consistent with previous research reporting differences between black and white adults [33], we also found a lower prevalence among black adults when compared with AIAN adults. Reasons behind the differences in disability prevalence could be due to a number of factors, including the variation in perception of disability by culture [39], or hesitation to self-report disability due to stigma [22, 26, 39]. Differing socioeconomic characteristics of adults in certain racial and ethnic groups may also affect disability prevalence [36], and poverty has been found to have more of an effect on disability among white women than among black women [43].…”

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Socioeconomic Factors at the Intersection of Race and Ethnicity Influencing Health Risks for People with Disabilities

Courtney-Long

Romano

Carroll

et al. 2016

J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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Objectives People with disabilities are known to experience disparities in behavioral health risk factors including smoking and obesity. What is unknown is how disability, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status combine to affect prevalence of these health behaviors. We assessed the association between race/ethnicity, socio-economic factors (income and education), and disability on two behavioral health risk factors. Methods Data from the 2007–2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System were used to determine prevalence of cigarette smoking and obesity by disability status, further stratified by race and ethnicity as well as income and education. Logistic regression was used to determine associations of income and education with the two behavioral health risk factors, stratified by race and ethnicity. Results Prevalence of disability by race and ethnicity ranged from 10.1 % of Asian adults to 31.0 % of American Indian/ Alaska Native (AIAN) adults. Smoking prevalence increased with decreasing levels of income and education for most racial and ethnic groups, with over half of white (52.4 %) and AIAN adults (59.3 %) with less than a high school education reporting current smoking. Education was inversely associated with obesity among white, black, and Hispanic adults with a disability. Conclusion Smoking and obesity varied by race and ethnicity and socioeconomic factors (income and education) among people with disabilities. Our findings suggest that disparities experienced by adults with disabilities may be compounded by disparities associated with race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors. This knowledge may help programs in formulating health promotion strategies targeting people at increased risk for smoking and obesity, inclusive of those with disabilities.

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The relationship between awareness of intellectual disability, causal and intervention beliefs and social distance in Kuwait and the UK

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

High School Students' Contact with and Attitudes towards Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Kuwait

High School Students' Contact with and Attitudes towards Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Kuwait

An examination of perceptions of individuals with an intellectual disability, with and without co‐morbid schizophrenia: effects of labels on stigma

Socioeconomic Factors at the Intersection of Race and Ethnicity Influencing Health Risks for People with Disabilities

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